A new study out of the University of Toronto shows that housing costs over time have had great impacts on population ...

Rising housing costs are the leading factor behind America’s declining fertility rates, according to new research that ...

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The effort of reproducing may divert energy away from repairing DNA or fighting illness, which could drive ageing, but a new ...

The United States, once an outlier among industrialized countries with respect to its high birth rate, has caught up with the low fertility trend. As ...

Form error message goes here. Thank you. Please check your inbox to confirm. For years, people concerned about falling birth rates have warned of the economic ...

A mother lulls her newborn baby at Saint Joseph Hospital in Denver, Colorado on April 1, 2025. Credit - Hyoung Chang—The Denver Post From Tokyo to Berlin, getting more women into the workforce, and ...

Families in the U.S. and around the world are having fewer children as people make profoundly different decisions about their lives. NPR's series Population Shift: How Smaller Families Are Changing ...

Famous for baby boxes and expansive pro-family policies, Finland continues to see one of the lowest birth rates in Europe, as ...

GRAND FORKS – North Dakota birth rates have declined 35% since 2016, a trend some say is caused by economic uncertainty, a shift in social norms and a post-oil boom lull. Unless residents start having ...

California’s birth rate has hit a record low, a historic “baby bust” dipping below the birth rate of 1906, when San Francisco was recovering from the great earthquake that destroyed most of the city.

COLUMBUS, Ohio — Ohio, one of a handful of states without comprehensive sex education taught in schools, has a higher teen birth rate than the national average. The national birth rate for females ...